Slavery to God and Man

1 Timothy 6:1-2 · 2025-10-26 · Jason Wolin · 1 Timothy | God’s Blueprint for a Strong Church

1 Timothy 6:1-2 · Obedience. Slavery to God and Man — sermon from Cypress Bible Church on BibleSlides.

Slavery to God and Man Slideshow for this message PDF Message Download None of us here would argue that political questions of the world are complex. What should our foreign policy with Israel be? How should we handle immigration? What should our minimum wage policy be? How much freedom should we be allowed to have as it relates to firearms? What is considered government overreach? If we ask 30 people in the room here we’d get 30 different perspectives on these issues. They say that if you want to avoid a fight, there’s two subjects you need to avoid: religion and politics. Well today we are going to talk about both. Why do people get worked up about religion and politics? Answer, because it matters. It impacts your life. It massively affects your freedom. They aren’t simple. They are complex topics. There’s lots of ways to look at things. So here’s the question: How would God want us as CHRISTIANS to engage in the world to fix things that just aren’t right? What do we do? We see people treated unfairly. We see bosses taking advantage of their employees We see government corruption. What do we do? Now there is not agreement here among Christians. Here’s the debate. Should we, as Christians in a dark world, fight for our rights, fight for the rights of others because God loves justice. And it will be when justice is upheld that it will adorn the gospel and change our culture. Or is it literally the exact opposite of that. Should we as Christians, instead of fighting for our rights, surrender our rights and it would actually be the surrendering of those rights that adorns the gospel of Christ such that it would change our culture? Do we fight for our rights or surrender our rights? You can’t do both. What is God’s way? And once again, it doesn’t matter what you think or what I think. The only question that ever matters is this: What does God say in His Word? Does he actually comment on this? There is no direct comment on the question we are asking. But, there are some pretty significant indirect references. For example, if ever there was a thing you would think would call for social action, it would be slavery. If ever there was a thing that was a total and complete violation of human rights, its slavery – without question. So here Paul is addressing slavery, this horrific evil where a person made in the image of God is owned by another. Why is it that there is no call on the part of the apostle for some kind of social revolution or political revolution or disruption to this horrible institution of slavery? It CERTIANLY would have been possible for Paul to mobilize the Christian slaves into some kind of insurrection or revolt. There’s no question of his leadership ability. They along with the THOUSANDS OF FREE CHRISTIANS could have made some sort…

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